Live Thread: Cavs vs Spurs 2017-01-21 Off By Tom Pestak Kevin Love will play tonight as the Cavs host the 33-9 San Antonio Spurs. Â The Spurs are led by Kawhi Leonard and they rank 4th in the NBA in Offense and 3rd in Defense. Â The game is on ABC and tip off is at 8:30. Â Let’s chat about it here! Links to the Present: “No need for a Knick to take down a Warrior” Edition Recap: San Antonio 118, Cleveland 115 (OT) (Or, Jekylll and Hyde)
Come on Kev, shoot that.
Four on Green.
Cavs just need to defend hard for a few minutes and build a decent lead.
Lets get James through this quarter with 3 fouls.
The Cavs don’t really have the personell for a great defensive team, but they’ve got to build better habits than this.
Do you forget the playoffs and Finals last year? It’s only been 6 months. They are a great defensive team in the playoffs.
Jefferson looks a bit slower and Korver is not the defender Smith is.
Shump can’t guard Kawhi down low.
He let’s Kwahi back him down too easily.
Good game. Few TOs. Few fouls.
Quite a comment from Magic that the Cavs are toying with the Spurs
He loves Lebron, Magic is respectful and intelligent better than 99% of the commentators. Thank goodness Hubie Brown nose Golden State isn’t on tonight.
Anyone ever been to Maui?
My son on his honeymoon. I’ve never been there.
Yes. Love the place.
Yes its awesome – Lahaina is great as is the Road to Hana
Second that.
16 assists on the 24 buckets. Nice.
Spurs proving to the Cavs that late round piks can have value. Murray & Andersen.
Eh. Cavs are pretty set with their bench.
We have 2 dead roster spots. No #2 PG & only 3 bigs & you think the reserves are set? I’d take Murray right now. Or Tyus Jones, for that matter.
Murray would be nice on our roster
14/17 for sas and we’re still up 1. Despite some mistakes, i like the style we’re playing in this game on D and O
Yeah. Cavs look tough.
Cavs can’t get in a good defensive rhythm yet. Lue still trying to find the right rotation when Korver in. If you have him in there, you gotta use him in the offense to make up what he lacks on defense
James with 3 fouls. Still, we steadied after going down 7 & are up 1.
Good turnover forced from Liggins
Liggins with a steal & layup.
Love in.
There’s some D. 24 second.
Love was walking to the scorers table and got pulled back – weird
We are at 50%. Spurs at 58%.
Lebron playing sooo much back to the basket. It’s great. Think Lue did that specifically against Spurs?
We haven’t seen Love this quarter. Wonder if he out for the remainder of the game?
Our defense …… geez
Exactly, that is the main thing the Cavs need to improve IMO. They keep giving straight driving lanes to the Spurs. They have to be more physical and move their feet better on defense.
I’m like yeah Shumpert on the steal and like No No NO on him dribbling down court
Korver again!
There you go
Need more from Korver
Issues. Korver for a much needed triple.
RJ not getting it done tonight. Hope he can turn his game around
The Cavs again are scoring well but getting beat of the dribble consistently.
There we go. Ky makes a coupe & gets a steal for a TT dunk. 7-0 response from Kyrie.
19-2 this quarter.
There’s my aggression. put Ky & Kev in.
We need a lineup change bad
James sometimes needs to be a tad more aggressive with this lineup. Frye has had some good looks, however.
Just been missing decent looks and spurs are making. Our defense and ball movement are still fine imo
This unit getting killed. 12-2 in 3 minutes.
Even James with them isn’t working
WOW WHAT A PASS BY LIGGS
11 to 4 in a hurry. James gets us t wo.
That patty mills ‘punch you in rhe face and get a jump ball move’ was hillarious
Zero TOs in the first quarter.
9a/0to – hope you enjoyed the 1q!
DeAndre Liggins is really a find. Even with his limitations on offense, his defense makes him playable against any team in the league.
Yeah. With Shump shooting like JR, we don’t lose a ton. Liggins is so good on D, he fills in for what Shump gave us last year.
Love is off too. Still we are up 11 with Ky & Kev cold.
Frye dunk from Love. Up 11. Liggins got hit there & Frye too on the dunk. Mills punched Liggins there.
Liggins with a nice pass to Frye.
C’mon Moondog coulda done that layup
Whew Nice strip
Cool set & James get Liggs a two & then he strips Kawhi.
Honestly these ABC clowns are about to use the word “spritely” to describe LBJ. The way they are patronising him, you’d think he was going to retire after this game.
Kyrie sucks. What’s with this soft shooting displays. If the hammy still hurts sit his ass and bring up that d leaguer.
Kryie going solo on O, nice D. Misses a 3 & fouls Kawhi. 2 on Ky. We have issues when Ky or James pick up 2 early.
Kyrie’s cold from deep tonight. Hopefully it picks up.
Great pass there from James fo TT lay in.
Good fake from Love to draw the foul (2/3) & James with the old fashioned 3.
Shump for 3 again!
They get easy paint points. Smh
The best thing about this broadcast team is that Hubie Brown isn’t on it
Agreed lol
The Cavs again with the lazy defense just letting guys drives in the lane uncontested.
Got to stop the ball that is a basic basketball fundament.
Defense – how does it work?
On an as-needed basis, apparently. It starts to be needed in April.
That didn’t last long. Pop tells them to get more aggressive offensively & they do it
Cavs missing some bunnies, and not playing the kind of defense they need to against this team.
3 layups. With Lee & Aldridge inside, we should attack more.
Great defense Ky
So much for the D. 2 layups, easy J.
Shump is not nearly as good as saving possessions late as JR is. Otherwise, he’s great.
Good stuff early. Everyone has scored. Good D.
Good start from the Cavs. Let’s hope they keep it up.
So far so good
Spurs are old and slow. Great regular season team but they rarely make it out of the 2nd round.
Sure, except when they win the whole freaking thing. If they are old, what are the Cavs?